Recommended Reading #159: Abortion, Pt. IV
“Why a 20-Week Abortion Ban Is Unthinkable: One Woman’s Near-Death Experience” by Valerie Tarico (Reproductive Rights, Health and Body, Politics) 6/26/13
I find the final paragraph of this one of the most powerful and have long strongly agreed with it.
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“Reproductive Choice Is About More Than Getting ‘Fat’—It’s About Bodily and Economic Autonomy” by Natasha Chart (Health and Body, Reproductive Rights) 7/10/13
As I see it, this piece addresses a number of practically relevant considerations that haven’t always seemed as noted, especially to those who have not actually experienced pregnancy.
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“US: The GOP’s pro-life hypocrisy” by Jill Filipovic (Reproductive Rights, U.S. Public Policy, Politics) 7/9/13
This is stated about as well as I can imagine it being stated. (The only slight caveat I would offer is that I see it as not solely a political party thing—some Democrats are anti-choice, and some Republicans are not. But I can understand the author using the wording she does since a lot of this focuses on Republican-controlled legislative bodies and/or Republican-sponsored bills.)
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